# Water polo at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads

The following is the list of squads that took part in the men's water polo tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

## Australia

The following players represented Australia:
* Michael Withers
* Tom Hoad
* David Woods
* Peter Montgomery
* Ian McLauchlain
* Robert Menzies
* David Neesham
* Les Nunn
* Nicky Barnes
* Leon Wiegard
* Bill Tilley

## Bulgaria

The following players represented Bulgaria:
* Biser Naumov
* Ivan Kovachev
* Aleksandar Shintser
* Toma Tomov
* Plamen Brankov
* Mladen Khristov
* Nedelcho Yordanov
* Vasil Tomov
* Andrey Konstantinov
* Matey Popov
* Lyubomir Runtov

## Canada

The following players represented Canada:
* William Van der Pol
* Alan Pyle
* Rick Pugliese
* Clifford Barry
* Donald Packer
* Stephen Hart
* Jack Gauldie
* Robert Thompson
* David Hart
* Gabor Csepregi
* Guy Leclerc

## Cuba

The following players represented Cuba:
* Oscar Periche
* David Rodríguez
* Jorge Rizo
* Guillermo Martínez Ginoris
* Orlando Cowley
* Eugenio Almenteros
* Carlos Sánchez
* Gerardo Rodríguez
* Osvaldo García
* Guillermo Cañete
* Jesús Pérez

## Greece

The following players represented Greece:
* Dimitrios Konstas
* Georgios Theodorakopoulos
* Evangelos Voultsos
* Kyriakos Iosifidis
* Dimitrios Kougevetopoulos
* Periklis Damaskos
* Thomas Karalogos
* Ioannis Karalogos
* Efstathios Sarantos
* Ioannis Palios
* Panagiotis Mikhalos

## Hungary

The following players represented Hungary:
* Endre Molnár
* Tibor Cservenyák
* András Bodnár
* István Görgényi
* Zoltán Kásás
* Tamás Faragó
* László Sárosi
* István Szivós Jr.
* István Magas
* Dénes Pócsik
* Ferenc Konrád

## Italy

The following players represented Italy:
* Alberto Alberani Samaritani
* Eraldo Pizzo
* Roldano Simeoni
* Mario Cevasco
* Alessandro Ghibellini
* Gianni De Magistris
* Guglielmo Marsili
* Silvio Baracchini
* Franco Lavoratori
* Sante Marsili
* Ferdinando Lignano

## Japan

The following players represented Japan:
* Yukiharu Oshita
* Hirokatsu Kuwayama
* Toshio Takahashi
* Shuzo Yajima
* Hiroshi Hashimoto
* Koji Nakano
* Naoto Minegishi
* Tatsuo Jihira
* Takashi Kimura
* Yoshihiro Yasumi
* Toru Arase

## Mexico

The following players represented Mexico:
* Daniel Gómez
* Francisco García
* Maximiliano Aguilar
* Raúl Alanis
* Arturo Valencia
* Juan Manuel García
* Armando Fernández
* Alfredo Sauza
* Ricardo Chapa
* Víctor García
* Rafael Azpeitia

## Netherlands

The following players represented the Netherlands:
* Evert Kroon
* Hans Wouda
* Jan Evert Veer
* Hans Hoogveld
* Wim Hermsen
* Hans Parrel
* Ton Schmidt
* Mart Bras
* Ton Buunk
* Gijze Stroboer
* Wim van de Schilde

## Romania

The following players represented Romania:
* Şerban Huber
* Bogdan Mihăilescu
* Gheorghe Zamfirescu
* Gruia Novac
* Dinu Popescu
* Claudiu Rusu
* Iosif Culineac
* Cornel Rusu
* Viorel Rus
* Radu Lazăr
* Cornel Frăţilă

## Soviet Union

The following players represented the Soviet Union:
* Vadim Gulyayev
* Anatoly Akimov
* Aleksandr Dreval
* Aleksandr Dolgushin
* Vladimir Zhmudsky
* Aleksandr Kabanov
* Oleksiy Barkalov
* Aleksandr Shidlovsky
* Nikolay Melnikov
* Leonid Osipov
* Viacheslav Sobchenko

## Spain

The following players represented Spain:
* Salvador Franch
* Juan Rubio
* Juan Sans
* Juan Jané
* Alfonso Cánovas
* Gabriel Soler
* Poncio Puigdevall
* Enrique Guardia
* José Padrós
* Gaspar Ventura
* Luis Bestit

## United States

The following players represented the United States:
* James Slatton
* Stan Cole
* Russ Webb
* Barry Weitzenberg
* Gary Sheerer
* Bruce Bradley
* Peter Asch
* Jim Ferguson
* Steve Barnett
* John Parker
* Eric Lindroth

## West Germany

The following players represented West Germany:
* Gerd Olbert
* Hermann Haverkamp
* Peter Teicher
* Kurt Küpper
* Günter Wolf
* Ingulf Nossek
* Ludger Weeke
* Kurt Schuhmann
* Jürgen Stiefel
* Hans Simon
* Hans Hoffmeister

## Yugoslavia

The following players represented Yugoslavia:
* Karlo Stipanić
* Ratko Rudić
* Ozren Bonačić
* Uroš Marović
* Ronald Lopatni
* Zoran Janković
* Siniša Belamarić
* Dušan Antunović
* Đorđe Perišić
* Mirko Sandić
* Miloš Marković